Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
I started quiet quitting after it came to light that the new hires with zero experience were being paid more than I was, someone who had been there for over a year, and already had 5 years of experience. I no longer give a shit about the company, because they made it clear they don't give a shit about my contribution. If you want people to put in extra effort, you have to give them extra money. Once you cheat an employee, they're not gonna get over it because of a pizza party. fucking pay them.
The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia....
The AP obtained records showing inmates at Marion, which houses predominantly mentally ill offenders, were hospitalized for hypothermia at least 13 times in three years during cold-weather months
Nothing to see here folks, just people who were too stupid to be a cop torturing mentally ill people under the auspice of state care. Don't worry! nothing will happen to them.
He was already on leave following an incident in December, 2023 when he was arrested after crashing his car while possessing 20 unprescribed Xanax pills.
Christina Marie Chapman, 49, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, raised $6.8 million in the scheme, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday. Chapman allegedly funneled the money to North Korea’s Munitions Industry Department, which is involved in key aspects of North Korea’s weapons program, including its development of ballistic missiles.
Part of the alleged scheme involved Chapman and co-conspirators compromising the identities of more than 60 people living in the US and using their personal information to get North Koreans IT jobs across more than 300 US companies.
The allograft they made was from the patients own pluri-potent stem cells, which developed into a piece of tissue comprised of islet beta cells which produce insulin. They took this tissue, cut open this huge vein that goes into the liver, stitched this tissue into the opening, and closed the patient back up.
Unlike prisons, which house convicted Texas felons, the majority of people in county jails are being held pre-trial, meaning they have not yet been convicted of the crime they were arrested for. Still, the amount of time people spend in jail can be significant. In Harris County, the average length of stay is nearly 200 days.
As the federal government clamps down on inmate phone call costs, the tablets provide prison technology companies with new sources of revenue from a captive customer.
A captive customer that hasn't been found guilty of a crime.
girls enter puberty so much earlier than boys, their capable of reproduction anywhere from 10-12. When you talk about "prime reproductive years," know that it includes girls as young as 10. So... stop using that term. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt and inferring that you actually mean girls that are on the very cusp of womanhood, like, ages 17-19, but others may not.
Women are hot, girls are not. Some girls can appear to be older than they are, and it's confusing when confronted with a genuinely attractive woman that is not yet 18, because we're caught between the confusing notions of "I am attracted to this person" and "this person is not yet old enough to to be engaged with in a socially conscious manner." It's not wrong to find the person attractive, it IS wrong to engage with them in a manner reserved for those that are fully realized adults. For my purposes, I'm putting adulthood at around age 22-25, when your brain is pretty much fully developed.
So with that being said, No, Jerry Seinfeld didn't do a bad thing by thinking a 17 year old girl attractive, he DID do a bad thing by engaging with her as if she was a fully formed adult.
increased money and power correlate negatively with the portion of your brain responsible for empathizing with others. The more money/power you have, the smaller that portion of your brain is. Here's a landmark study that's since been cited over 200 times
If it’s legal, and she was mature, why would it be wrong
Well a thing being legal does not make a thing right. Emotional maturity is subjective, and thus is not what we use for determining whether a person is considered an adult or not.
would it be wrong if I had sex with “a fully formed adult” when she is emotionally immature?
Maturity isn't the guiding rod by which we can determine adulthood. I'm suggesting that age is relevant to this, because it's the best we have at determining brain formation. Intellectual disabilities in an adult would mean that engaging with them sexually is wrong, showing that it is the functionality of the brain that determines adulthood. If there was never a need for a draft, I think we would naturally have concluded adulthood starts around 22-25, instead of the arbitrary designation of 18. For the purpose of having a hard rule to stop children from being taken advantage of, age is the best we have (for people without intellectual/developmental disabilities).
With that in mind, we really can say definitively, that no, Seinfeld isn't wrong for finding her attractive, but he was for having a sexual relationship with her.
That being said, arguing that the urges behind the wrong act are "natural," seems to argue for a relaxation of our attitude towards these relationships, which is also wrong. which is why other Lemmineers got the "ick" from your previous comment.
Because nobody is upset that he found her attractive. We're upset because he was a fully formed adult, with super-stardom and all the trappings of power that come with it, engaging in a sexual relationship with a not fully formed adult.
the vice-chair of the board’s budget and finance committee, Marty Kotis, indicated that he considered the DEI programs to be disharmonious to the campus atmosphere. “I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination,” Kotis said at the meeting during which the vote was held. “We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”
And the way they go about promoting unity and diversity of thought is more police?
when we have to rely on private companies to "pretty please don't bankrupt me" for health care needs, we're truly fucked.
I was a part of my local rotary club for a minute (local clubs for small business owners), and we had a guest speaker from the drumpf white house. It was at this forum she touted a new plan that would allow companies to get together, and pool their collective employees, so as to get a better bargain on health care from health insurance companies. I raised my hand and said "that's fantastic, is there anything stopping every business in the area from doing this? We could potentially get everyone in the state, heck the nation, to pool together and IMAGINE the savings!" They ignored me.
Been trying to find a new car, and realized that out of all the things I've been looking for in my new vehicle, I realized I forgot one very important thing. At some point, I could become homeless, and might need to live out of my car, so searching for one that has a fold-down backseat to put a mattress is key.
I’d kill for something forcing airbnb, vrbo, etc to actually cooperate.
I'll go one step further, I'd pay taxes to the government that actually regulates shitty business practices. How is it easier to have a 12% increase in homelessness last year than it is to regulate fucking airbnb? Airbnb is not northrup grumman. It's not allied steel. it can go the fuck away.
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
Well Subway, just about the only place you can get healthy fast food, only raised their prices 39%, in comparison with Popeyes and Jimmy Johns, whose prices rose 82% and 62%, respectively.
not everything at subway is healthy, but it's easier to eat healthy at Subway then at other places. For most of the sandwiches, the main contributor to calories is the bread. Just go with the wheat bread or a wrap to cut the calories of a sandwich in half.
When I was a starting line cook, they told me to recirculate the air in the freezer. I said "what?" They said "recirculate the air in the freezer." while handing me one of those giant black trash bags. I opened the door to the freezer, opened up the bag fully, and then went "wait a minute..." they had a laugh, and I started eyeing all of their requests through the lens of "is this bullshit?"
Later on, at more professional jobs, they have the same sort of requests. Not ones that are hazing jokes, but just actual bullshit assignments that mean very little, are looked at by nobody, and that accomplishes nothing. Except now those assignments are like 90% of the job. Hooray office work among middle management!
The Kennedy Space Center has this flight reset for 10May2024, this Friday! Can't imagine how the astronauts feel, having the mission scrubbed whilst all strapped in, told to go home and maybe they'll shoot you into space in the next few days 😅
Ever since I visited, I've wanted to live in the Netherlands. I hope the situation eases so I can follow my dream without being seen as an asshole immigrant taking up space ☹️
Succinct, with verifiable data, all backing up the main posit; that the financial and social situation of the young in the U.S. has never been worse. Every other generation previous to 2004 out earns the previous, with jumps in social benefits. Not anymore. They secured the bag, pulled up the ladder behind them, and are currently cementing the top post caps of the great wall of china that they've built between us and capital. Right now I can say with confidence and certainty that You (yes, you) paid a higher percentage of your income to taxes than the billionaire that owns your local NFL/NBA/NHL team.
Unless those federal protections don't include heat protection...
There are currently no protections in the US for workers from heat. Only a handful of states such as California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Minnesota have passed any heat protections for workers.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) is currently reviewing federal heat standard protections and issues fines against employers citing the general duty clause in cases where workers die due to heat stress, but worker groups have advocated that heat protections which include water, rest, shade, breaks and acclimatization are needed to save workers from heat illnesses and their lives.
I'm aware that Whoopie once said that the holocaust "wasn't about race, but man inhumanity towards man." For which she apologized. Is there something else that makes you say she's thoroughly loathsome?
A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday....
Remember when conservatives were all about "corporations are people?" Yeah, when someone's gross negligence results in death of another, they don't usually fine the negligent person. They charge them with mansluaghter.
What, never been catfished before? Had plenty of women do this to me on apps. All their pictures show one person, then they show up as a person and a half. After the date I just tell them "thanks but no thanks, you catfished me."
I don't know what you're trying to imply, that I "blindly" swipe on stereotypically attractive straight women (how would one blindly do that, I wonder), or that I am judgemental? It has happened to me 3 different times. Women using pictures of them before serious weight gain. all 3 cases it was over 100lbs difference between pictures and reality.
Also my type is queer/weird, as I am queer and weird.
I read the whole profile, not sure why you assume I don't. Probably the same reason you assumed I just "blindly go for stereotypically attractive women".
I have formed friendships from dates as well.
I never said I left a date right away if the woman was catfishing, I always am cordial, finish the date, and then when they ask for another, I say no, and tell them it's because they catfished me.
From everything you've assumed about me, to trying to differentiate how you would act, just screams pick me.
I usually eat holistically, with nutrition coming from whole grain meals, I guess you just blindly go for carb-centric meals 🙄
I also always tip at restaurants, not sure why others wouldn't...
New York City’s largest cop union is suing Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Adams for implementing a new “zero tolerance” policy on NYPD officers using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, the Daily News has learned....
That's cool, cops mad because they want to be able to pump themselves full of illegal drugs known to cause increased aggression and paranoid delusions without facing any consequences. I mean, when has a cop ever faced consequences, so it must be truly mystifying to them that they're being told to stop taking drugs tone down their rampant drug use.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240430115700/https://apnews.com/article/superhuman-strength-lethal-restraint-police-b6ec5846ce18784ab99438eeb3f27eef
Finding an outstanding misdemeanor warrant for Muhaymin, all four officers attempted to arrest him by wrestling him to the ground. They noted in their official statements that the 43-year-old Black man had “superhuman strength.”
Muhaymin’s autopsy report said he was 5 feet, 5 inches and weighed 164 pounds.
Police out here thinking every black man is pound-for-pound the strongest person in their weight class. Believe in yourself as much as police believe in black peoples strength.
Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, threatening critical ecosystems, endangering wildlife and human health, a new investigation reveals....
Last year Governor Jim Pillen, whose family owns one of America’s largest pork companies, was widely criticized for calling a Chinese-born journalist at Flatwater Free Press a “communist” after she exposed serious water quality violations at his hog farms. Earlier this month, the Nebraska supreme court ruled that the state environmental agency could charge the same investigative news outlet tens of thousands of dollars for a public records request about nitrates.
Everywhere I look there's a huge problem affecting all of us, and a republican doing everything in their power to make it worse.
VIRTUAL SPRING
Woman and man sitting in Adirondack chairs on their back porch as a leaf blower wails in the background
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Woman: The moment it’s warm enough to enjoy the spring, the leaf blowers start up.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Woman: Not only are they loud, they’re poisoning workers with exhaust, spraying dust, allergens and fecal matter everywhere, and spewing tons of CO2 during a climate emergency.
All to blow a few blades of grass off a driveway!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Man: What you need are noise-canceling earbuds and birdsong recordings to re-create the joys of a suburbanized spring.
Softer REEEEEEE
Woman, wearing earbuds with birds tweeting around head: Ah, the late anthropocene…
When I was younger I spent an afternoon hanging out with my grandfather. We sat on the porch of my fathers house smoking cigarettes. My mom came outside and asked me to clear the fallen leaves off the porch. Well, young me went to the garage and pulled out the awesome backpack leaf blower my Dad had. Proceeded to spend a few very noisy minutes trying to get some leaves out of a corner, when my grandfather laughed and said, "you know, sometimes the harder way is easier." and handed me a broom. Took all of a 5 minutes to sweep everything off nicely, whereas I was getting nowhere blowing leaves every which way.
I don't even own a leaf blower now, don't need one.
Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? ( www.theguardian.com )
Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates they've given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says ( fortune.com )
Fossils ( mander.xyz )
‘How do you get hypothermia in a prison?’ Records show hospitalizations among Virginia inmates ( apnews.com )
The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia....
Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president's backers say he shares faith, values ( apnews.com )
Northern Lights expected soon as Sun drives stormy space weather ( www.bbc.com )
A cop allegedly shot and killed his Lyft driver, claiming he was being kidnapped for a 'gay fraternity' ( www.advocate.com )
‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference ( www.theguardian.com )
“The peace activists are war activists,” co-founder and CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp insisted. “We are the peace activists.”...
Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies ( arstechnica.com )
Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months. ( www.nature.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15676759...
When Texas jails issue tablets, it comes at cost for inmates and families - A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make money off their use. ( www.texastribune.org )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240515115928/https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/13/texas-prisons-jails-tablets/
Woman accused of neo-Nazi plot to attack Baltimore's energy grid pleads guilty ( www.cbsnews.com )
A Baltimore County woman has pleaded guilty Tuesday for conspiring to attack and destroy Baltimore region's power grid last year. ...
Jerry Seinfeld’s Teen Girlfriend Saga Resurfaces After Duke Walkout ( www.thedailybeast.com )
University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing ( www.theguardian.com )
Ocasio-Cortez: State of US health care is ‘barbarism’ ( www.thehill.com )
The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless ( fortune.com )
How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion ( www.arktrek.shop )
Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says ( www.cbsnews.com )
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
Houseplants ( lemmy.world )
Cruise ship docks at New York City port with 44-foot dead endangered whale caught on its bow ( www.yahoo.com )
Back to the studio! ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Fatherly hazing ( lemmy.world )
Boeing forced to scrub first crewed Starliner launch to the space station ( www.nbcnews.com )
The launch attempt was called off roughly two hours ahead of the planned liftoff....
‘Everything’s just … on hold’: the Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis ( www.theguardian.com )
Amsterdammers find themselves at the nadir of a Europe-wide housing shortage. But some bold initiatives offer hope...
How has the world gotten worse since your heyday?
How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED ( youtu.be )
Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Effects of heat are expected to worsen after bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting shade and water protection is passed...
Rant: Star Trek writers really need to be more careful about what living scientists they choose to reference. ( www.thestand.org )
Meant to post this in main star trek community, not ten forward, d'oh....
Why are some Latinos drifting to the right? ( www.motherjones.com )
Employer of visiting nurse who was killed didn't protect her and should be fined, safety agency says ( apnews.com )
A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday....
Star Trek = Combs ( lemmy.world )
A Few Weyouns More (someone make a fanfic with that title!)...
Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business ( edition.cnn.com )
NYPD union sues Adams administration over new ‘zero tolerance’ policy on steroid use among cops ( www.nydailynews.com )
New York City’s largest cop union is suing Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Adams for implementing a new “zero tolerance” policy on NYPD officers using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, the Daily News has learned....
Myth of 'superhuman strength' in Black people persists in deadly encounters with police ( apnews.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240430115700/https://apnews.com/article/superhuman-strength-lethal-restraint-police-b6ec5846ce18784ab99438eeb3f27eef
Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes ( www.theguardian.com )
Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, threatening critical ecosystems, endangering wildlife and human health, a new investigation reveals....
No-so-silent Spring ( files.mastodon.online )
https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/112352503805738131
Woman and man sitting in Adirondack chairs on their back porch as a leaf blower wails in the background
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Woman: The moment it’s warm enough to enjoy the spring, the leaf blowers start up.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Woman: Not only are they loud, they’re poisoning workers with exhaust, spraying dust, allergens and fecal matter everywhere, and spewing tons of CO2 during a climate emergency.
All to blow a few blades of grass off a driveway!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Man: What you need are noise-canceling earbuds and birdsong recordings to re-create the joys of a suburbanized spring.
Softer REEEEEEE
Woman, wearing earbuds with birds tweeting around head: Ah, the late anthropocene…